Foster v. Gueory’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 1319 · 1981
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 43 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Snell v. Suffolk County (1986), Kizas v. Webster (1983)
32 federal appellate · 43 district · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Donaldson v. United States · Love v. Pullman Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an interest relating to the property or transaction which is the subject of the action,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“that it can fairly be said that no conciliatory purpose would be served by filing separate EEOC charges.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It would be wasteful, if not vain, for numerous employees, all with the same grievance, to have to process many identical complaints with EEOC. If it is impossible to reach a settlement with one discriminatee, what reason would there be to assume that the next one would be successful.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.